Game-carrier.



UNITED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON C. PETERS, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

GAME-CARRIER. e

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 723,179, dated March 17, 1903.

Application filed May 5 190.2. Serial No. 105,971. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON C. PETERS, residing at No. `611 South Eleventh street, Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Game-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawbody in the shape of a belt and ings, which form a part of this specification. `This invention relates toacombinatiou belt and game-carrier.

The object of my invention is to provide a si rn ple device that may be strapped about the be used by a hunt-sman as a game-carrier. I

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure l a View of my game-carrier as used as a belt with portions broken away, While Fig. 2 shows my inventionas about-to be usedv as a game-carrier. Y

My combination belt'and game-carrier comprises a strap or fabric tape A and A of a suitable width so that the same may be used A as a belt. At both ends the belt is recurved to form attaching-loops, as is shown at c and e, and secured about the central stem of two of the slide-buckles B and C, as is shown in Fig. l. The fabrics at each end are then carried betweenfthe loops and across the central bar of these tyvo slide-buck1es B and C, as shown, so that each end is providedwith a carrying-loop b and d, as shown. One of the slidebuckles, as the one marked B, for instance, is provided with two simple hooks l l, so that thesame will snap over the adjacent slide-buckle C. These carriers are made of a length so that they can be conveniently used as a belt. Should the carrier be longer than would be required as a belt, a portion is looped in, as shown at b in Fig. l. The

carrier is then secured to the body of the Weareras a belt. Now when the game is to be carried `the huntsman slides forward the buckles B and C to provide the loops, as shown, at the ends A and A', into which the game is placed, when the buckles are slid down to securely bind the game within the loops, the intermediate portion of the carrier being used as a handle. Books, parcels, and other devices can of course also be secured in these ends. If desired, these slide-buckles B and C may be made in the form of hooks, so that they may be secured to the ends and then hooked over any intermediate portion of the belt. The simplest form, however, is to provide the slide-buckles as disclosed.

The device is neat and simple of construction and can be made of leather belting, fabric tape, or any other suitable material.

' Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United StatesLetters Patent, is

A carrier of the class described, comprising a strand, a buckle arranged at each end of said strand, each of the extremities of said strand being curved to forrn an attachingloop permanently connected to the buckle thereat, said strand being coiled within the buckles and around said attachingloops when the carrier is adapted for use as a belt, said buckles having a slidable adjustment upon said strand for enlarging the coils of the latter to form carrying-loops, and a hook u formed upon one of said buckles and adapted to engage the other buckle for sustaining the carrier in applied position when used as a belt.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MILTON C. PETERS. Witnesses:

GEORGE W. SUEs, LULU M. CURTTRIGHT. 

